Chapter 17

Class was the same as usual. Stein rambling on about dissecting some endangered species, but ended up doing some math stuff. Maka took notes of all the examples and problems while Soul dozed off. When it was time for class to finally end Stein turned around to see half of the class was basically dozing off, or sleeping. Stein sighed and slammed the math book shut, causing some students to wake or jump. "Okay, we'll pick up this lesson tomorrow since half of the class fell asleep." said Stein as he placed the book in the middle of his desk. "Class dimissed".

As everyone was leaving, Soul and Maka were the last ones in the class. Maka had tooken alot of notes, and had a bit of trouble trying to fit them into her folder. Soul stretched and yawned at the sight. Finally she packed it all in and with Soul by her side headed for the doors. She waved goodbye to Dr. Stein and left.

Soul placed an arm around Maka's shoulder and sighed. Soul noticed that they were passing by the mission board. He noticed that some of them weren't taken yet, and at that Soul got an idea. "Hey Maka" softly spoke Soul "You wanna take one of these missions. I'm kinda hungry for souls..." Maka looked from Soul toward the board. She stepped away from Soul and took a good look at the open missions.

"Sure, we haven't really made any progress on turning you into a Death scythe." replyed Maka as finally chose one of the missions, and turned back to Soul. "But first lets go home. I'm kinda hungry too, and I can't eat souls...". That caused Soul to chuckle, and place a kiss on her forehead. They walked down the familiar steps of the DWMA and the streets that led to their building, and got to their apartment. Maka made her self a sandwhich, and a glass of water. And before Soul knew it, she was done with her meal and already heading back out the door.

They traveled to a place of Death City that they never heard of to reach where the Kishin egg or evil human would be. "So this guy liked to blow shit up?" asked Soul as they grew close to the area. "Atom-ic they call him that, wow his Soul better taste good then.".

Maka quickly stopped Soul because she had sensed something. Soul looked around to see if he saw Atom-ic. The place seemed abandoned, there where some buildings but they all had holes blown into them. It surprised Soul at how those buildings were still standing.

An explosion caught them by surprise. A tall man wearing goggles, with a smile stitched into his face showing of his sharp bloody teeth. He held onto a bunch of explosives of different sizes in one hand and the other seemed to be infused with some device that lit the explosions. Soul glared at him, while Maka just motioned for Soul to get ready to transform.

"So you must be Atom-ic. We'll be taking you're Soul..." Said Maka as Soul transformed into his weapon form and landed into her hand. Maka swung him around and ran for Atom-ic. He easily ran dodged her but flew an explosive at her back. Maka quickly kicked the explosive away, and seconds after she did that the exposive blew up.

"Maka watch out, this guy can blow you up to bits." stated Soul as his reflection apeared on the blade of the scythe. He just glared at Atom-ic, "What the hell he's just smiling at use." and grew irritated of his face. "Well lets just kill this guy, cause i'm starving."

Maka took a look at the crumbling buildings then back to her enemy. This time Atom-ic came running toward her, in the process he began to fly more explosives. Maka used the end of the scythe to fling the bombs back toward him, and it worked. Atom-ic flew back but landed on his feet. His goggles were cracked, and his smile looked different somehow.

Atom-ic made a large flame burst out of his left hand, lighting more bombs up. Maka thought she dodged all of them but was hit with one. It instantly blew up as soon as it hit her and flew her back into one of the buildings. She landed inside the building through one of the holes. Maka began bleeding from a cut on her leg caused from some glass that was left in the building, she slowly stood grinding her teeth at the pain The floor under Maka's feet groaned at the weight, it was old and barely standing.

Atom-ic joined them at the enterance of the hole. The stiches that formed his smile were gone, and his sharp teeth showed like a sharks. He slowly made his way to Maka, growling "dinner time".

Maka was trapped but quickly looked around for a way out beside the way she came in and noticed at how there was one wooden beam standing connecting from the ceiling to the floor. "So this is how the building is still standing..."thought Maka.

"Maka do something, he's gonna blow us to pieces if you don't do something..." shouted Soul as he watched Atom-ic pull out a small explosive.

"Iz small...but blow up you! good bye..." said Atom-ic in a deep dark tone. He lit the little bomb up and threw it at Maka's face. Maka quickly reacted by hitting it with the end of the scythe like before, but aiming it at the one wooden beam. She quickly ran for the giant hole in the wall trying to escape before the explosion hit the beam that would cause the building to collapse and dodging Atom-ic. That was her plan after realizing that the building was still standing cause of that one wooden beam...to take out that beam, escape even if it pained her, and let Atom-ic die in the crumbling building thus crushing him.

As the bomb hit the beam causing it to explode and breaking the beam Maka had barely jumped out of the hole. Atom-ic, shocked at how he was too stupid enough to not realize at how careless he has been on not leaving as soon as he lit that bomb let out a howl. The building began to crumble and wobble, and crushed Atom-ic.

Maka made it a few meters already out thinking she made it out until, a huge chunk of the top floor collapsed and landed on the end of her long black coat, causing her to fly back to the building. Maka noticing that turning to her weapon, and saw his face in the reflection, he Shouted "MAKA!" as he knew that she wouldn't be quick enough to set herself free of her coat.

It happened all too slow for Maka, but too fast for Soul. As Maka slowly began to hang from the building she laid a kiss on the blade of the scythe and flung him as far as she could, hoping that he wouldn't be caught in the rubble. The crumbling of the building began to spped up and more and more bricks were falling. "It's my turn...Soul to save you." said Maka.

When Soul landed on the cold ground, he groaned but quickly transformed into his human form. As he turned back to look at the building it had collapsed, with Maka in it. Soul covered his face from the giant wave of dirt flew past him. Some small rocks scratched his face from the force. When the air finally cleared up Soul finally remove his hands from his face, and made his way to the piles of rubble. Soul noticed the Kishin egg that he had been hungry for was floating around, but he wasn't really hungry anymore but he took it and quickly ate it...he just wanted to know if Maka was okay.

"M-MAKA...WHERE ARE YOU! MAKA!" shouted Soul hoping Maka would answer him. He truly became worried that Maka had...died. He began digging through all the different piles of rubble, hoping he'd find Maka. Tears began to fall down his scratched up cheeks, "I'm h-her damn weapon! i'm suppost to protect her!".

Soul began to stop digging until he heard "...s-soul...". Soul quickly jumped up looking for the source of that noise. He began to call out her name, and out of the corner of his eye he saw some rubble move.

"M-maka..." said Soul as he ran toward the pile or rubble that moved. And what he found made him really sad but happy at the same time. He found his beloved girlfriend and meister's body being crushed by rubble. He quickly ran to her side and took a hold of her hand. He pushed off some of the bricks and stones and held her head up. Blood dripped out of her mouth. She barely smiled, but wasn't able to move any limb in her body. Soul's tears began to stream down and land on chest. It seemed as if it wasn't moving at all.

"d-don't cry Soul..." said Maka as she was shushed by Soul. Soul held onto Maka hugging her motionless body to his. Her breathing was slowing down each minute. His tears mixed with her blood.

"Don't you die on me Maka, you'll be s-so uncool if you do baka." said Soul as he continued to hold her against him. "I love you, this is the second time you did this to me...". joked Soul before he was interrupted.

"Whoa what happened here, oh my SHINIGAMI SAMA MY BABY GIRL!" yelled spirit as he ran to Soul and Maka. "P-papas here Maka, it's gonna be okay. I brought Stein...". Spirit began to tear up at the sight of his bloody daughter.

Stein stared in shock at Maka, and at the surroundings. He also quickly rushed to her side next to Spirit. "Lord Death told us of a big explosion and told us to go check it out, then we see that a mission was taken and it's location was here." said Stein as he checked Maka's legs and arms. "Many bones in her body are broken, she might not make it if we stay here and cry over her. We need to leave now!". Maka's eyes shut and he head fell back, and at that Stein carefully lifted her bloody body into his arms and made his way back to school.

Spirit and Soul stared at the puddle of Maka's blood. Spirit took a look at Soul and noticed at how un-injured he looked, and it filled him with anger. He stood from the puddle and stared at Soul, Soul looked up at him. "You're a weapon right?..." asked Spirit even if he already knew the answer. Not being answered he bagan to yell the same thing.

Soul answered back with an attitude, knowing that him and Spirit never got along. "Look, I care for her as much as you do and..." said Soul as he was cut off by Spirit.

"Since you're a damn weapon...YOU'RE SUPPOST TO PROTECT YOU'RE MEISTER NO MATTER WHAT!." shouted Spirit as he turned his back to Soul. "...and she's you're girlfriend, so protecting her should be you're most impotant job.". After, Spirit walked away leaving Soul sitting by himself in the rubble next to the puddle of Maka's blood.